This morning I opened an LSL script that I last worked on in 2007.

“FORCE_WIBBLE_MAX”? Really? I know I wrote this thing, but I’m awfully confused here.

Fortunately, it works. I can’t remember how or why, but it works.

I took a little tour of Second Life airports recently to see what aircraft designers have been up to lately. Although I haven’t been gone from SL, I haven’t released anything new for quite a while, and I wanted to see how the advent of mesh — the ability to upload 3D wireframe models — had influenced aircraft design.

I was, quite frankly, blown away. The realism in the models and texturing was head and shoulders above what I’d seen in SL before the advent of mesh uploads. And having done some 3D modeling myself, I was astonished at the level of realism and accuracy. I saw fighter jets, World War II planes, commercial jets both large and small, and helicopters of all types — all of them faithful reproductions of the real-world aircraft. That the price tag on some of these aircraft was a hefty L$6000 (about $24 US) wasn’t surprising — until I started learning more about mesh.

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